Lynn J. Fry, 53, Found Dead in Ogden Home
Champaign News Gazette
Wednesday, July 18, 1951, page 9
OGDEN, July 18 – (BSC) Lynn Jay Fry, 53, was found dead at 3 a.m. Wednesday in his home here. A physician said he had been dead since 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Fry had been in failing health since May 17, when he was injured in a tractor accident while working on the Chester Hiser farm southwest of Ogden. A tree root snapped him off the tractor and one wheel of the vehicle ran over him. He was in Burnham city hospital, Champaign, for one week.
The body is at Freese funeral home, but funeral arrangements are incomplete. Services will be at the Christian church.
Mr. Fry, a World War I veteran, was born at Rantoul on Aug. 13, 1897, son of Jay and Jessie Fry. He married Naomi Ginder in Danville on Nov. 19, 1921. He came to Ogden 20 years ago from Urbana. He was a member of Ogden American Legion Post 998 and the Rantoul Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife and five children, Mrs. Wanda Sands, Everett, Wash.; Mrs. Mary Baker, Falmouth, Mass., and James Fry, Mrs. Joan Black and Mrs. Jean Maxwell, all of Ogden; one sister; Mrs. Myrtle Locke, Champaign; a brother, Nathan Fry, Freedom, Pa., and six grandchildren.
His parents, a sister and a brother preceded him in death.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Champaign News Gazette
Wednesday, July 18, 1951, page 9
OGDEN, July 18 – (BSC) Lynn Jay Fry, 53, was found dead at 3 a.m. Wednesday in his home here. A physician said he had been dead since 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Fry had been in failing health since May 17, when he was injured in a tractor accident while working on the Chester Hiser farm southwest of Ogden. A tree root snapped him off the tractor and one wheel of the vehicle ran over him. He was in Burnham city hospital, Champaign, for one week.
The body is at Freese funeral home, but funeral arrangements are incomplete. Services will be at the Christian church.
Mr. Fry, a World War I veteran, was born at Rantoul on Aug. 13, 1897, son of Jay and Jessie Fry. He married Naomi Ginder in Danville on Nov. 19, 1921. He came to Ogden 20 years ago from Urbana. He was a member of Ogden American Legion Post 998 and the Rantoul Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife and five children, Mrs. Wanda Sands, Everett, Wash.; Mrs. Mary Baker, Falmouth, Mass., and James Fry, Mrs. Joan Black and Mrs. Jean Maxwell, all of Ogden; one sister; Mrs. Myrtle Locke, Champaign; a brother, Nathan Fry, Freedom, Pa., and six grandchildren.
His parents, a sister and a brother preceded him in death.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Lynn J. Fry, 53, Found Dead in Ogden Home
Champaign News Gazette
Wednesday, July 18, 1951, page 9
OGDEN, July 18 – (BSC) Lynn Jay Fry, 53, was found dead at 3 a.m. Wednesday in his home here. A physician said he had been dead since 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Fry had been in failing health since May 17, when he was injured in a tractor accident while working on the Chester Hiser farm southwest of Ogden. A tree root snapped him off the tractor and one wheel of the vehicle ran over him. He was in Burnham city hospital, Champaign, for one week.
The body is at Freese funeral home, but funeral arrangements are incomplete. Services will be at the Christian church.
Mr. Fry, a World War I veteran, was born at Rantoul on Aug. 13, 1897, son of Jay and Jessie Fry. He married Naomi Ginder in Danville on Nov. 19, 1921. He came to Ogden 20 years ago from Urbana. He was a member of Ogden American Legion Post 998 and the Rantoul Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife and five children, Mrs. Wanda Sands, Everett, Wash.; Mrs. Mary Baker, Falmouth, Mass., and James Fry, Mrs. Joan Black and Mrs. Jean Maxwell, all of Ogden; one sister; Mrs. Myrtle Locke, Champaign; a brother, Nathan Fry, Freedom, Pa., and six grandchildren.
His parents, a sister and a brother preceded him in death.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
Champaign News Gazette
Wednesday, July 18, 1951, page 9
OGDEN, July 18 – (BSC) Lynn Jay Fry, 53, was found dead at 3 a.m. Wednesday in his home here. A physician said he had been dead since 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Mr. Fry had been in failing health since May 17, when he was injured in a tractor accident while working on the Chester Hiser farm southwest of Ogden. A tree root snapped him off the tractor and one wheel of the vehicle ran over him. He was in Burnham city hospital, Champaign, for one week.
The body is at Freese funeral home, but funeral arrangements are incomplete. Services will be at the Christian church.
Mr. Fry, a World War I veteran, was born at Rantoul on Aug. 13, 1897, son of Jay and Jessie Fry. He married Naomi Ginder in Danville on Nov. 19, 1921. He came to Ogden 20 years ago from Urbana. He was a member of Ogden American Legion Post 998 and the Rantoul Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife and five children, Mrs. Wanda Sands, Everett, Wash.; Mrs. Mary Baker, Falmouth, Mass., and James Fry, Mrs. Joan Black and Mrs. Jean Maxwell, all of Ogden; one sister; Mrs. Myrtle Locke, Champaign; a brother, Nathan Fry, Freedom, Pa., and six grandchildren.
His parents, a sister and a brother preceded him in death.
(Transcribed by the Homer Historical Society)
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